Tag: Privatized

  • Arizona Privatized Prison Health Care to Save Money. But at What Cost?

    Arizona Privatized Prison Health Care to Save Money. But at What Cost?

    In 2017, Walter Jordan wrote a memo to a federal judge from the Arizona State Prison Complex in Florence. “Notice of Impending Death,” it said in a shaky hand. Jordan told the judge that Arizona corrections officials and Corizon Health, the state prison system’s private health care contractor at that time, delayed treating his cancer…